CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Twenty years ago on Sept 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo's winds blew their way into the history books of South Carolinians as the category 4 storm made landfall in Charleston. WhileMore >>

Twenty years ago on Sept 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo's winds blew their way into the history books of South Carolinians as the category 4 storm made landfall in Charleston.More >>

Roto-Rooter has compiled a list of the strangest items its technicians found in toilets, pipes and trenches over the last year.

Topping the list is a live Civil War cannon shell discovered by a Roto-Rooter crew digging up a Mississippi sewer main. An Army Ordnance disposal team took it away.

There was also a cat, rescued after 24 hours in a North Carolina storm sewer.

And, Roto-Rooter's Number three is a collection of GI Joes, sent down an Illinois toilet by a three-year-old. When he couldn't get them back, he flushed several Matchbox cars after them. In all, 15 toys were recovered.